Stones Quotes - Page 31

• The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Rolling, Bars, Looks

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• I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

  Ken Kesey

  Christian, Literature, Acid

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• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Father, Grateful

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  R. D. Laing

  Hero, Medusa, Theory

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• While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

  Jon Landau

  Rolling, Clean, Andrew

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• 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

  Jon Landau

  Crazy, Men, Self

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• Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

  Jon Landau

  Style, Together, Albums

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• The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

  Jon Landau

  Play, Creating, Rolling

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• The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

  Jon Landau

  Frustration, Rolling, Nerves

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• When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, High Heels, Hips

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• It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Law, Evil, Stronger

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• No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

  Mary Leakey

  Yield, Information, Bows And Arrows

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• My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

  Denis Leary

  Dad, Men, Ice

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• At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Cameras, Rolling, Way

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• When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Rolling, Journalism

  "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, www.powells.com. November 1999.

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• I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

  Adam Levine

  Hero, Fans, Green

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• I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.

  Leona Lewis

  Relax, Massage, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

  Bai Ling

  Artist, Roles, Feels

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• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  Walter Lippmann

  Peace, Wall, War

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• Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Men, Genius

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

  Christian Louboutin

  Precious Stones, Shoes, Persons

  "Talk Asia" with Sara Sidner, transcripts.cnn.com. August 10, 2012.

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• There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

  John Lydon

  Song, Rolling, Rolling Stones

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• I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Kings, Hem, Break

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• The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

  Thomas Mann

  Dwelling, House, Humanity

  The New York Times, June 21, 1939.

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• The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

  Paul McCartney

  Crazy, Keith, Woods

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